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    • Config settings doesn't impact PA behaviour...

      pirrbe

      PA2023 Win10, (same problem with older releases but never reported)
      PA Soft is installed on partition D. (exclusive for installed progs)
      Then I created on my partition G: the folders as configured in PA Settings ‘Folders’.

      0fcf1b09-1b91-4b74-b250-f8cf908a3348-Ashampoo_Snap_maandag 20 maart 2023_11h54m34s.png

      Screenshot 2023-03-20 121152.png

      The problem : Any activity on PA is saved in these folders…
      PA ignores them and still use the default settings. Whats wrong ? Regards, Pirrbe

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    • Missing pdf markups in pdf preview

      L

      I am still using Powerarchiver 2022 and it does not show pdf markups in the preview. Is there a setting to get version 2022 to show pdf markups in the preview? If not, does this work in version 2023?

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    • Question about PA Files...

      T

      The question that I have about PA archives is what happens if say ConeXware, as a company, dies in the future? What happens to any PA files that are created today? Can these files be decompressed with a copy of a PowerArchiver that can no longer phone home to the mothership thus can’t be registered or activated?

      I mean, I can understand that new PA files wouldn’t be able to be created if the program isn’t registered but what about an un-registered copy because well, the question that I posed above?

      It’s questions like this that make me not want to store anything really valuable in PA files out of fear that I, at some point in the future, might lose access to said data inside those files. OK, 7ZIP might not be able to compress as heavily as PA but at least it’s open source and any 7ZIP files will still be able to be read and decompressed ten, twenty, or fifty years from now.

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    • Functions in Windows 11 context menu no longer work after last Windows Update

      T

      For some reason, the PowerArchiver functions in the Windows 11 context menu no longer work after the last Windows Update. Only the functions in the classic context menu function as they should.

      I’ve tried uninstalling PowerArchiver and using RevoUninstaller to remove all bits and pieces that were left behind and did a clean install of PowerArchiver, it didn’t fix the issue. Other items in the Windows 11 context menu work.

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    • Multi Extract doesn't extract in parallel in Windows 11

      Z

      Is this a known problem? Is there a fix coming? This is a primary reason I buy PA.

      I’ve tried both methods I know to extract multiple zips at the same time. 1) Multi Extract feature in the GUI. 2) In Windows File Explorer, select multiple zips, right click, use PA context menu to Extract or Extract To…

      Is there a setting I missed? Or maybe it really is processing in parallel, but I can’t detect it? Nothing tells me in the Processes in Task Manager that multiple PA extracts are running. And my CPU, memory and disk resources do not look like a lot of extracts are running.

      I’m using PA 2022 Standard version 21.00.18 on Windows 11 Pro version 10.0.22621 Build 22621.

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    • Functions in Windows 11 Context Menu don't work in some directories

      P

      In the latest version of PA, on W11 (latest build/SP) when you try to use the first level context menu - NOTHING HAPPENS (particularly when you do this from Downloads or Documents folders) - however I noticed that it DOES WORK when you use the context menu from the Desktop. Going to the second level context menu does work however.

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    • PA 2023 Preview versus PA2022

      pirrbe

      Is the version Preview 2023 also considered to be tested by the testteam ? In the past we got messages in the forum for testing out version x.x, to be downloaded by fastring, or I missed the one for 2023. (I discovered 2023 on the official web…)
      CU, Pirrbe

      .

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    • Missing virtual driver in Patchbeam

      pirrbe

      PA 2023 22.00.08
      Long time no seeing. So I start up the new year with a first problem : the virtual driver cannot be installed. Reason : it is missing in the Fast Ring PatchBeam Update Service…
      Virtual driver PA 2023-01-28 152607.png
      It seems a standard problem with new releases :-)
      Can I have a link or can it be fixed. Thank you. CU later

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    • How to get a registering code?

      N

      Hi there, been a user since 13 years now and in past whenever I had a problem or question I could email, however since 3 weeks it seems like everybody is dead?

      Anyway, as kind of a last resort, I post this email a 4th time but in this forum instead now, in the hope for help:
      "This is the 3rd time I am emailing you guys as I am missing a working code for the preview of Power Archiver 2023

      Can you please help me? I am a 13 years lasting customer of yours, and I am shocked thatr for whatever reason my support tickets are ignored now, why?

      thanks in advance!
      All the best!
      Joerg"

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    • File Explorer Shell Extension crash on Junction

      W

      Re: Explorer.exe Crash on right click

      This appears to be happening again with the Power Archiver 2022 shell extensions.

      When I have Use Explorer Shell Extensions enabled in Power Archiver Configuration and right-click on c:\Users\username\Start Menu, (hidden Junction file), File Explorer crashes.

      I have version 21.00.15 (03/2022) 64-bit installed in Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1826).

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    • PA 21.00.18 Action / Test behaves oddly for me on .PA files

      Brian Gregory

      PA 21.00.18 running on Windows 7 64 bit.
      I made a big .PA file and thought I’d check it was made correctly with Menu / Actions / Test.
      Discovered:
      a) PA always issues a UAC prompt to do this!
      b) PA always says there are many errors in PA files.

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    • PA 21.00.18 testing via context menu causes extraction of files

      D

      When the function for testing archives is invoked via the shell context menu (PowerArchiver > Test) then all the files in the archive get extracted to the current folder.

      The test dialog reports as many errors as there are files in the archive but it fails to give any hint as to which files are supposed to be erroneous or what the nature of the problem might be. Comparing the extracted files to the originals shows no differences at all.

      The .7z in question was produced with maximised compression settings in 7zip (taking forever but resulting in smaller archives than .7z produced by PowerArchiver with maximised settings). Therefore I wanted to see whether PowerArchiver can at least test .7z that it produced itself. Hence I had PowerArchiver convert a .pa with the same contents to .7z. There weren’t any errors reported but the resulting .7z contained fewer than half of the files contained in the .pa (137 of 366), so I scratched that test.

      Performance is abysmal when testing via the context menu (e.g. almost 2 minutes for testing a .7z that 7zip tests in 4 seconds), but that is most likely due to the fact that the extracted files are written to disk. Testing the same .7z in the PowerArchiver GUI takes only 8 seconds but causes the mysterious appearance of a UAC dialog, as reported elsewhere.

      The testing function is vital because PowerArchiver has a history of producing archives that it cannot unpack without errors or that do not conform to the respective file format standards (e.g. ZIP) so that other programs report them as erroneous.

      The point of creating archives is that the files in them will most likely have to be extracted at some point. If the extraction cannot be guaranteed to produce correct results then the whole program is absolutely pointless. Actually, worse than pointless - it causes data loss and hence damage.

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    SOLVED powerarchiver not able to compress / decompress files with long file names

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    • Konglomat
      Konglomat last edited by

      Here’s my problem with Powerarchiver:

      I bought powerarchiver, only through this
      for me serious bug it is almost useless
      for me and i hope they get the bug fixed quickly!
      this one seems to exist already for a longer time!

      When I compress or decompress certain files (in PA format)
      does not compress or decompress any further, but stops
      without error message. I found out the problem
      and isolated, this happens with heavily interlaced
      directories, or for files whose file name is too long.
      Windows support for long file names is
      although switched on but powerarchiver does not compress
      Files with long file names.
      Try this! Nest a file with long
      Names times 4-5 times in different folders, powerarchiver will
      not be able to compress or decompress this!

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      • Konglomat
        Konglomat last edited by

        Thank you all for your effort and for tackling the problem and trying to solve it! I think this is great and very nice of you all :) so you have a loyal customer, I wanted to buy the Powerarchiver Toolbox anyway, I am a very big fan of this great program! Many thanks again to all of you :)

        @Brian Gregory
        Yes I have indeed tried to use the release version, but there the same error occurs, unfortunately also. But of course I would like to help you to find certain bugs in the program, isolate them and fix them, I like to do this very much, also the 2021 version is still a tick better, because for example the compression speed was optimized for ZIPX, this is of course a great advantage … I digress, sorry, I don’t want to go too much into offtopic, sorry for that …

        I was very, very happy to help you, because I am a big fan of this program, it is very useful for me! I like it very much to be able to report bugs, which helps the program to get better and grow.

        It is very nice and I would like to thank you all very much and wish you all a pleasant afternoon.

        Please stay healthy, we all live in very hard times!

        All the best and nice, best wishes!

        Konglomat

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        • Brian Gregory
          Brian Gregory Alpha Testers last edited by Brian Gregory

          Are we talking long, exceptionally long or really ludicrously long?
          I think Windows itself will start to do rather weird things if the total length of the complete path is over about 256.

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          • M
            Mili conexware last edited by

            Hi @Konglomat

            Yes, there are limits on character size in Windows. However, lets check if PA is performing correctly.
            Could you post and/or send us the folder/filename structure you are compressing?
            We will test with the exact same character size.

            Thanks!

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            • Konglomat
              Konglomat last edited by

              I don’t know exactly how they define a “ridiculous path length”, but yes, I think the path length is ridiculous :)

              Yes, any other compression program, and I mean direct competitors, can compress and decompress this path length without a single grumble, even for free, which is a pity, because powerarchiver is not one of the cheapest compression software.

              This is a path length that cannot be compressed, there are subfolders per subfolder, but they are two folders shorter.

              I find this unfortunately very unfortunate, I have also tried in Windows via Group Policy and with the Registry Editor to activate the support of Windows for long paths, unfortunately without success, even at the command prompt, this makes no difference.

              Here is a typical path in the as an example, the names do not match with my paths, but the path length is correct from the characters, contained are only PDF files, quite a lot of them…the names of the files are different between 35-47 characters long, it can’t be because of windows, because for example 7zip,rar etc compresses and decompresses this without problems.

              F:\Corona Virus State of Research\Corona Virus Medicine,Research,Working etc\Corona Virus Medicine,Research etc\New 27.03.2020\Donald Trump various

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              • Brian Gregory
                Brian Gregory Alpha Testers last edited by Brian Gregory

                I did a little test with that path in a PA file and a bunch of PDFs and for me it created the PA file just fine but I see weird scrambling of the paths when extracting in ways reminiscent of this bug I reported before:
                https://forums.powerarchiver.com/topic/6239/

                Have you tried going back to the release version rather than using this preview version?

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                • M
                  Mili conexware last edited by

                  thanks for the information everyone

                  I setup the exact same folder structure as in @Konglomat 's example, and compressed a PDF file with 47 characters in the file name and was not able to extract it via PowerArchiver.
                  We have logged this in for fixing.

                  thanks again for the help!

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                  • Konglomat
                    Konglomat last edited by

                    Thank you all for your effort and for tackling the problem and trying to solve it! I think this is great and very nice of you all :) so you have a loyal customer, I wanted to buy the Powerarchiver Toolbox anyway, I am a very big fan of this great program! Many thanks again to all of you :)

                    @Brian Gregory
                    Yes I have indeed tried to use the release version, but there the same error occurs, unfortunately also. But of course I would like to help you to find certain bugs in the program, isolate them and fix them, I like to do this very much, also the 2021 version is still a tick better, because for example the compression speed was optimized for ZIPX, this is of course a great advantage … I digress, sorry, I don’t want to go too much into offtopic, sorry for that …

                    I was very, very happy to help you, because I am a big fan of this program, it is very useful for me! I like it very much to be able to report bugs, which helps the program to get better and grow.

                    It is very nice and I would like to thank you all very much and wish you all a pleasant afternoon.

                    Please stay healthy, we all live in very hard times!

                    All the best and nice, best wishes!

                    Konglomat

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                    • M
                      Mili conexware last edited by

                      thanks for the kind words @Konglomat !!!
                      stay safe and healthy!

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